Rufus Wainwright’s U.S. premiere of ‘Dream Requiem,’ L.A. Opera’s ‘Ainadamar’: a spirtual double bill

Osvaldo Golijov’s beauteously strange “Ainadamar” has reached Los Angeles. The opera, one of this century’s most gratifying, portrays the 1936 political execution of the poet Federico Garcia Lorca during the Spanish Civil War through the final minutes of actress Margarita Xirgu’s life. She dies as she is about to go onstage in the Lorca play … Read more